skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attestation is still a thing. You can still limit it to the Apple or Google platform authenticator.
I'll believe that when ChatGPT stops making up APIs that have never ever existed in the history of a library.

The dumbest intern doesn't do that.

Which is the entire point of the article that your comment fail to address.
For one, a brain can’t do anything without irreversibly changing itself in the process; our reasoning is not a pure function.

For a person to truly understand something they will have a well-refined (as defined by usefulness and correctness), malleable internal model of a system that can be tested against reality, and they must be aware of the limits of the knowledge this model can provide.

Alone, our language-oriented mental circuits are a thin, faulty conduit to our mental capacities; we make sense of words as they relate to mutable mental models, and not simply in latent concept-space. These models can exist in dedicated but still mutable circuitry such as the cerebellum, or they can exist as webs of association between sense-objects (which can be of the physical senses or of concepts, sense-objects produced by conscious thought).

So if we are pattern-matching, it is not simply of words, or of their meanings in relation to the whole text, or even of their meanings relative to all language ever produced. We translate words into problems, and match problems to models, and then we evaluate these internal models to produce perhaps competing solutions, and then we are challenged with verbalizing these solutions. If we were only reasoning in latent-space, there would be no significant difficulty in this last task.
So you think machines running statistical inference have awareness.

That's quite the embarassment if you actually mean it.
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All branches of everything is a dead end sooner or later in life
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which is prefix+number in tmux. I don't know if you can easily jump to a tab with a visible index in ghostty.
> The M4 Max has 546GB/s of memory bandwidth and ~34TFLOPS (fp16) = ~68 GB/s, a ratio of ~8.02. Whereas NVIDIA RTX 4090 has 1008GB/s memory bandwidth and ~330TFLOPS (fp16) = ~660GB/s, a ratio of ~1.52.

Why are we comparing FP16 performance when you're inferencing INT4 quantized models? Seems like a misleading figure to compare with when it's not really even the performance you're measuring.
Is that code from an LLM?
> Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers.

The best ffmpeg and regex command generators
Loved the lone footnote defining their view of AGI:

> A highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work

Holy goalposts shift, batman! This is much broader and much less than what I’d been led to believe from statements by this company, including by altman himself.
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They need to track time in the Schengen zone for non-EU citizens, which is what the stamps are mostly for AIUI.

Common in/out the Schengen with my UK passport post Brexit - got lots of stamps. Though it varies by country
>but got squicked out about the heuristics the system (might) run through before it let me through.

I think you're overestimating how sophisticated the system is. Most online check-in processes require you to input your passport details. In-person check-in probably results in the gate agent doing something similar. If the arrival airport has this information, it's pretty easy to look up the corresponding face on file (that you provided when you applied for a passport), and use that to generate a list of faces you need to match against. From there, it's only a matter of matching a given face to a face in that set. Moreover, given that arrivals are staggered, that set is going to be relatively small. A wide-body aircraft holds around 300 passengers. If 3 of them arrive at the same time, to the same passport control point, that's only around 1000 faces to match against. That's far easier to do than trying to match against all faces in the entire country, for instance.
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That's not really true and is at the heart of much of the 'confusion' about e.g. tax evasion vs. tax avoidance. You can do illegal things if you don't get prosecuted for them and a lot of this type of legal wrangling is to give your lawyers and political allies enough grey area to grab onto to shout about selective prosecution when you're called out for it.
I hope you have a cap set on your billing!
Ask HN: What can LLMs not do?
Hey guys. I'm getting a bit grey in the beard, but not quite there yet, and I'm really interested in what's going on with AI. Twelve years ago I had been reading Kurzweil and criticisms that people don't understand exponential growth, so I plotted some data and made a bet with my friends that we would have autonomous-only highway lanes in 2024. For a decade I watched what felt like glacial growth, but in the end I think that I was more right than wrong.

Now I'm watching LLMs empirically, and they too seem to be moving faster than I expected. I used to have a solid list of things that separated people from AI, but it's mostly crossed off at this point. I'd like some fresh lines in the sand, and since HN is both technical and cynical, this seems like the perfect place to ask.

I do have a couple of caveats: I'm not interested in intentional or form factor limitations. You can easily add stateful memory, or a robotic body. I'm also trying to avoid subjective measures, so even if it isn't "good", an LLM can already write a book. Finally, I'd prefer to focus on things that are testable. It's tempting to say they won't be conscious or have a soul, but I don't see how I would ever be able to cross those off.

That said, let's see what you've got!
I asked for papers from 2024,got two and then one from 2018
He said LLM, not just any AI
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The company is over a decade old and was not cheap to use, I don't think they could have suddenly run out of money as customers typically pay upfront and are in long term contracts. Could it be staffing issues? Corporate misbehavior? Data loss? Ransomware? Has a member of their team gone rogue? Misappropriation of funds?

We were bench customers until a few months ago, paying thousands of dollars per year for what could only be described as hundreds of dollars worth of service. The service was not very good so moving away was an easy choice but on a per-customer basis they must be making money hand over fist.

I expect we'll find out more eventually, hopefully employees will leak some insight. For now, this is inexplicable.
true.. in the past few days I used my time off to work on my hobby video game - writing the game logic required me to consider problems that, are quite self-contained and domain specific, and probably globally unique (if not particularly complex).

I started out in Cursor, but I quickly realized Claude's erudite knowledge of AWS would not help me here, but what I needed was to refactor the code quickly and often, so that I'd finally find the perfect structure.

For that, IDE tools were much more appropriate than AI wizardry.
Why would they implement this instead of de-monetizing it completely?
The infra for JWICS is pretty darn good. All the security failures have been at the human layers.
iirc managing them was buried super-deep in the browser settings (just like managing resident keys, browsers don’t even do that), but enrollment was fairly simple from a user PoV - submit a form and the server sent back the certificate, iirc you had to confirm a scarily worded dialog (or maybe import it manually? Not sure). Login was smooth if I remember it - just a pop-up if you want to use the installed certificate. Privacy should be fine with TLS 1.3 but would’ve been nonexistent with the contemporary SSL/TLS versions of course.
Also Dutch is, let's put it this way, not the prettiest language, nor the most useful. I'm sure that also kills plenty of motivation.
Betteridge's law of headlines, current AI may absolutely be a dead end, but fortunately technology is evolving and changing - who knows what the future will hold.
I'd guess staffing issues, since my bookkeeper would change every month. I'm still not sure how they couldn't afford to hire better staff, though. You're right that it could be something nefarious.

Where did you move to?
Definitely a local CPA. Building that relationship will pay off, even if it's just peace of mind.
I could see an argument for your example that putting the non profit in control of a social media company could help the long term financial success of the platform because you’re not chasing short term revenue that annoys users (more intrusive ads, hacking engagement with a stream of shallow click bait, etc). So it’d be a question of whether you could survive long enough to outlast competitors getting a big short term boost.

I’m not sure what the equivalent would be for llm products.
Lmao, you are the type of person actually believing these silicon valley bs. o3 is far, far away from AGI.
As a thought experiment, jumping back to the parallel with fitness, is your statement the same as saying "I suppose it depends on the person, but the older I get, the less patience I have for eating healthy and exercising, and the more I'd rather focus on eating food I like and spending time on my sedentary hobbies."? As in, it's 100% your choice to live your life that way, but you also have to accept that there are health repercussions associated with certain life styles.

Side note: I'm not sure what you mean by a "fake" social gathering. But for me, I've been taking part in a debate society, and some French meetups lately to socialise more, and I've loved it. Everyone is genuine in that they're there for a specific shared interest. And I've found that my thoughts/ideas are greatly improved from the ability to debate with others. Sometimes I'll realise I have a huge blind spot, and need to reject an idea. Sometimes I'll realise my idea had a short coming and that it needs to be adapted. Either way it just improves my thinking.
yup, i did that, i have it currently on balance mode so its not using anything without my knowledge
The implications of the technology are not impacted by how the technology was created or where the IP was sourced.
Indeed, this put me immediately in mind of Ximm's Law:

Every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.

Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is false.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. The only thing I know is, none of the arrogant fuckers on hacker news know anything about it. But that won’t stop them from posting.
:D , he got a star from me for the ease!
They use approved software lists containing a list of software that is already approved, by vendor version number, for use within your organization. There are teams that analyze popular commercial software for approved usage, often including source code inspection. Bank of America does the same thing.
I made an animation comparing the reef and thief knots that maybe makes it a little more intuitive why one is stronger:
https://x.com/KangarooPhysics/status/1526265820220952582
Right here, right now: Your use of "definition" is foreign to me. I do not have definitions of words in my head, but understandings or interpretations.

A definition is something that would be in a dictionary book.
I think that's been their working definition of AGI for awhile, actually.
What I read (in the past few months…don't have a link handy) is that gold is highly insoluble, but quartz's electrical properties can help seed crystallization of the atoms from (rock) solution (which is why it tends to appear with it).
It goes back to the old wisdom DIKW pyramid.

EDITED My ASCI art pyramid did not work. So imagine a pyramid with DATA at the bottom, INFORMATION on top of the data, and KNOWLEDGE sitting on top of the INFORMATION, with WISDOM at the top.

And then trying top guess where AI is? Some people say that Information is the knowing, what, knowledge the how, and Wisdom the why.
That seems like a reasonable heuristic for books from the mid-70s on, but before that they were usually really good books.
How come TT's categories aren't listed alphabetically?
I await for this to be incorporated into the Dwarf Fortress world seeding algorithm ;) .
This sort of issue is a relatively regular occurrence in the server fleet I and my team deal with. A handful of servers a month (out of thousands) end up misbehaving - a system won’t respond to a power up command from the BMC, a PCI-E device doesn’t appear properly after boot up etc etc

Standard troubleshooting before getting the vendor involved or replacing parts is to action a power drain.

BMCs with high uptime can be especially prone to this, often forgetting how to talk to the system they’re attached to.
> and the mega corp, like Facebook will only just barely experience anything like this because it’s just not that important.

I worked at Microsoft, and speaking to their security team my impression was that MSFT is under persistent attack from nation states on a non stop basis, up to and including working to get government assets hired to work at Microsoft to leak secrets out.

Given the importance of AWS, I have no doubt Amazon is under similar threat.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea.
Well actually (nerdy_guy_emoji) (finger_pointing) Dunning-Kruger effect isn't what you think it is.
try asking an LLM how to add compressed data to a tar through standard input, see how that goes (don't forget to check the answer :)
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But o3 is just a slightly less stupid idiot savant...it still has to brute force solutions. Don't get me wrong, it's cool to see how far that technique can get you on a specific benchmark.

But the point still stands that these systems can't be treated as deterministic (i.e. reliable or trustworthy) for the purposes of carrying out tasks that you can't allow "brute forced attempts" for (e.g. anything where the desired outcome is a positive subjective experience for a human).

A new architecture is going to be needed that actually does something closer to our inherently heuristic based learning and reasoning. We'll still have the stochastic problem but we'll be moving further away from the idiot savant problem.

All of this being said, I think there's plenty of usefulness with current LLMs. We're just expecting the wrong things from them and therefore creating suboptimal solutions. (Not everyone is, but the most common solutions are, IMO.)

The best solutions need to be rethinking how we typically use software since software has been hinged upon being able to expect (and therefore test) dertiministic outputs from a limited set of user inputs.

I work for an AI company that's been around for a minute (make our own models and everything). I think we're both in an AI hype bubble while simultaneously underestimating the benefits of current AI capabilities. I think the most interesting and potentially useful solutions are inherently going to be so domain specific that we're all still too new at realizing we need to reimagine how to build with this new tech in mind. It reminds me of the beginning of mobile apps. It took awhile for most us to "get it".
There are cruise missiles powered by ramjets that go significantly supersonic, but for the most part ballistic missiles are easier to use, longer range, and harder to intercept. The prospect of anti-air systems effective enough to pose ballistic missiles trouble in a "near-peer" non-nuclear conflict is recent. Both maneuvering-capable ramjet/scramjet cruise missiles and (the significantly easier) maneuverable hypersonic re-entry vehicles that launch ballistically, are the subject of recently fielded early models, active development & active testing because of that prospect.
"I guess that word is maybe not the best choice as "quantum teleportation" conjures up all sorts of images in an average person's head, but that does seem to be the case for a lot of quantum stuff."

The word teleportation is IMHO a reasonable term for what is occurring, because of the fact that particles are otherwise indistinguishable from each other. If you have some state on an electron, and you perfectly convey that state, entanglement and all, to some other electron, there's a fairly realistic sense that you have "teleported" that electron, because its quantum state and that it is an electron is all there really is to a particle. Particles don't have their own identity. It isn't really realistic to trace "the" path "an" electron takes through the universe. (The recent PBS Space Time about electrons has an illustration that will, in passing, demonstrate this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXPhaAsnrfs , around 13:05.)

You can't teleport large systems, but it's not a math restriction, it's just a brute physical restriction; you need a non-trivial machine to transmit something and there's just never going to be an engineering solution to transmitting macroscopic quantities of quantum information somehow. People get really confused about this because Star Trek transporters are magic, straight-up lunatic nonsense magic, but it defines the term for people, and those actually move matter around. Quantum teleportation does not; if you want to teleport matter (protons, electrons, etc) it requires the target already be present at the other end. So to "quantum teleport" a kilogram of water you'd have to have a kilogram of water already at the other end, and you'd still have a kilogram of water at the original source. It's only the quantum state that would move. So it has nothing to do with teleportation in the Star Trek sense.

The other key thing to understand about quantum communication is that you basically don't "transmit" any information at all. The payload that comes out of these systems is basically a stream of zeros and ones, where you know that the other side has the same stream, but neither side controls the stream, so the stream is quantum-level random. (Some engineering may need to be done for this, e.g., one side may be inverting all their bits, but this is the end result.) From here you can use this to construct keys that you know are not intercepted, and you do indeed send other conventional communication that is obscured by the quantum bit stream. (You can think one-time pad for this as at least a model, whether or not that's what they do.)
Right. Part of the reason why it's hard to start a business is having to deal with unfair bullshit. Youtube streamlines enough of the process to get people started relatively easily, but they get a lot of shit from these same creators for not doing everything for them.
You really shouldn't say LLMs "never graduate" to experienced staff - rather that they haven't yet. But there are recent and continuing improvements in the ability of the LLMs, and in time, perhaps a small amount of time, this situation may flip.
Could this result in an ansible?
> please just let Xlib die

I don't have arguments against the point about Xlib. However, I struggle to use its alternative XCB. XCB doesn't have enough documentation to understand how to use it. In fact, I even looked at the source code of Qt and GTK, but the usage doesn't explain the XCB API. I'd really appreciate if you share with me the data you have. The only thing which I found recently is the wrapper from System76 https://pop-os.github.io/libcosmic/tiny_xlib/index.html. However, it's not a documentation still. I just hope to find some usages of the wrapper and communicate with the original API.

> if you ignore the existence of Wayland

How did you conclude it? I even mentioned it in the article. I don't use it - it's true. However, I can't wait to do it. I've been trying for a couple of years now. Regrettably, I experience various technical difficulties every time. As a result, I still use my i3.

> For something like fast visualizations, you should really go with something that does offscreen rendering and then blits the result.

Do you mean double buffering?

> though obviously modern tools should use GPU rendering

Would you mind elaborating on it?
I want to run untrusted code in the JVM, and limit its access to IO and compute so it can't phone home or mess up my system. This used to work with the Security Manager plus being able to kill threads.

Now, based on the new thread killing implementation, a malicious thread can just catch the exception and keep running, and on top of that the Security Manager is being removed too.

So now my options are, switch to C++ and Lua, or run every sub-component in its own VM and add a bunch of IPC in the middle of my application. Or maybe port it all to JavaScript. Massive headache, performance implications are bad and it breaks continuity in an open source community that's been running since 2001.

This is my use case, maybe hello world 101 doesn't have any problems but I'm sure anyone doing more complex stuff is going to hit the same kind of issues.
haha thanks so much! really went for that with this project. hopefully wont cause any issues
> yet it's worse than Claude in practice

For most tasks - but not all. I normally paste my prompt in both and while Claude is generally superior in most aspects, there are tasks at which o1 performed slightly better.
There is a passport app that lets you clear US customs much more quickly: (no pre-approval needed, only US/Canada citizens are eligible at present)

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/mobile-passport-contr...

But you still need to carry the paper passport as backup.
This may be an exception to Betteridge's law of headlines
Why do you need "reliable internet"? There's no reason why a digital id system requires internet access to function. If it's stored on your phone, all it needs to do is be able to transmit a pre-signed blob that contains your biographical details. The verifier doesn't need internet either. All that's needed to verify a given electronic passport is a list of root authorities for every country, which can easily be preloaded onto a device.
As a Dutchman from outside of Amsterdam (you know, most of us):

Hah!

It's not even that they won't speak Dutch, often they can't! Sometimes you'll be hard-pressed to find someone capable of speaking Dutch in Amsterdam in some shops and restaurants. I've had people look sheepish/annoyed for presuming to use and expect Dutch in my own country.
No [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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oh, it's actually a problem with ultra-wide screens and there is no simple resolution for this and I gave up
https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/590
All I've heard from every single tweet, press release, etc. has defined their AGI as "A system that can think like humans, or better than humans, in all areas of intelligence." This is the public's view of it as well - surely you can see how burying their "working" definition in footnotes like this apart from the hype they drum up publicly is a bit misleading, no?

A cursory search yields stuff like this:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313130/sam-altman-opena...
I second this. I wouldn't have been able to make tmux such an integral part of my daily workflow if it weren't for this binding that I came across in someone's starter tmux conf many years ago.